GDR football league 1976/77

GDR football league 1976/77
master	SG Dynamo Dresden
European Cup of National Champions	SG Dynamo Dresden
Uefa cup	1. FC Magdeburg FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Cup winners	SG Dynamo Dresden
European Cup Winners' Cup	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig
Relegated	BSG Stahl Riesa FC Hansa Rostock
Teams	14th
Games	182
Gates	500  (ø 2.75 per game)
spectator	2,516,500  (ø 13,827 per game)
Top scorer	Joachim Streich , (1. FC Magdeburg)
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The GDR Oberliga 1976/77 was the 28th edition of the top division of the GDR . The championship was for the fifth time the SG Dynamo Dresden , which defended its title from the previous season. The season began on September 4, 1976 and ended on May 21, 1977.

Season course

Scene from the second game day: Peter Ducke scores his 150th league goal in the game against the later relegated Stahl Riesa.

For the last time in the history of the league, the league was dominated by the three clubs from Jena, Dresden and Magdeburg. In the end, Dresden was champion and thus defended its previous year's title, while Magdeburg and Jena placed behind. The decision for the championship was made on matchday 25 in a direct duel between Magdeburg and Dresden. The three points worse placed Magdeburg would have needed a win to be dangerous to Dresden on the last day of the game. But in front of their home crowd, 1. FC did not get past a 0-0 draw, which marked Dresden's fifth championship. On the last day of the match, Jena slipped past BFC Dynamo into third place and qualified for the UEFA Cup .

The fight against relegation was exciting. Before the last match day, six teams were threatened with relegation: Wismut Aue, Sachsenring Zwickau, Union Berlin, Stahl Riesa, Forward Frankfurt and Hansa Rostock. Aue (1: 1 in Erfurt) and Zwickau (6: 2 against Halle) saved themselves on their own, while Union (1: 1 against Magdeburg) and Frankfurt (2: 0 against Karl-Marx-Stadt) benefited from each other Rostock and Riesa only separated 0-0 in the direct relegation duel. The result did not help both teams and so Riesa rose after four years of membership in the second and the promoted Rostock for the third time from the league.

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	SG Dynamo Dresden (M)	26th	16	6th	4th	066:270	+39	38:14
2.	1. FC Magdeburg	26th	14th	6th	6th	047:280	+19	34:18
3.	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	26th	14th	5	7th	045:310	+14	33:19
4th	Berlin FC Dynamo	26th	14th	4th	8th	043:270	+16	32:20
5.	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig (P)	26th	10	9	7th	040:290	+11	29:23
6th	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	26th	8th	9	9	027:350	−8	25:27
7th	Hallescher FC Chemie	26th	7th	10	9	034:390	−5	24:28
8th.	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	26th	7th	8th	11	032:340	−2	22:30
9.	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	26th	10	2	14th	035:390	−4	22:30
10.	BSG Wismut Aue	26th	6th	10	10	027:450	−18	22:30
11.	1. FC Union Berlin (N)	26th	7th	7th	12	030:420	−12	21:31
12.	FC Forward Frankfurt	26th	9	3	14th	023:360	−13	21:31
13.	BSG Stahl Riesa	26th	8th	5	13	028:470	−19	21:31
14th	FC Hansa Rostock (N)	26th	6th	8th	12	023:410	−18	20:32

GDR champion and cup winner as well as participant in the European Cup of National Champions 1977/78 Participant in the European Cup Winners' Cup 1977/78 (finalist in the FDGB Cup) Participant in the 1977/78 UEFA Cup Relegated to the GDR league in 1977/78
(M)	Last season champions
(P)	Cup winner last season
(N)	Promoted last season
Newcomers from the GDR league 1976/77 : BSG Chemie Böhlen , BSG Wismut Gera

Crosstab

1976/77						LOK									HRO
1.	SG Dynamo Dresden		1-0	1: 1	2: 1	3: 1	7: 2	4-0	5: 2	3-0	4-0	3: 2	7: 1	4-0	6: 2
2.	1. FC Magdeburg	0-0		3-0	2: 1	2-0	0: 1	1-0	1-0	1: 3	1-0	5: 1	2-0	3-0	2: 1
3.	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	0: 2	5: 3		2-0	1-0	2: 1	4-0	2: 1	3-0	4: 2	3: 2	2-0	4: 2	2-0
4th	Berlin FC Dynamo	2: 1	2: 2	2-0		2: 1	3-0	2: 1	0-0	2: 1	1: 1	0: 1	2-0	2-0	6-0
5.	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	3: 1	3: 3	1: 1	2-0		1: 1	0-0	2-0	4: 1	4: 2	3: 1	1-0	1: 2	0-0
6th	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	0-0	2-0	1-0	0: 2	1: 1		1-0	0-0	3: 1	1: 1	2-0	1: 2	2: 1	2: 1
7th	Hallescher FC Chemie	3: 1	2: 1	1: 1	1: 1	2: 1	0-0		1: 1	2: 1	7-0	3: 1	4: 1	1: 1	1: 3
8th.	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	1: 2	0: 3	3: 1	3: 4	0-0	2: 2	6: 2		2-0	3: 1	1: 2	1-0	2-0	0-0
9.	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 2	1: 2	3: 2	2-0	2-0	2: 1	1: 1	0: 1		5: 1	2-0	3-0	0: 1	3-0
10.	BSG Wismut Aue	2: 1	0: 4	0-0	1-0	1: 1	1: 1	1: 1	1: 1	1-0		2: 2	1-0	6-0	0-0
11.	1. FC Union Berlin	2: 2	1: 1	2: 1	1-0	0: 3	1: 1	1: 1	1: 1	1: 2	0: 1		1-0	1: 1	2-0
12.	FC Forward Frankfurt	0: 2	2: 3	0-0	1: 2	1: 1	2-0	2-0	1-0	2-0	1-0	1-0		5: 1	1-0
13.	BSG Stahl Riesa	0: 2	1: 1	0: 2	0: 3	0: 1	3: 1	3-0	2: 1	2-0	2-0	2: 4	0-0		4: 1
14th	FC Hansa Rostock	0-0	1: 1	1: 2	2: 3	2: 5	2-0	0-0	1-0	2-0	1: 1	1-0	2-0	0-0

statistics

Champions team

The Dynamo Dresden team successfully defended their previous year's championship.

SG Dynamo Dresden
Claus Boden (22 games / goals) Hans-Jürgen Dörner (16/2) Christian Helm (25 / -), Udo Schmuck (22/3), Klaus Müller (23/1) Reinhard Häfner (24/2), Hartmut Schade (26/6), Hans-Jürgen Kreische (23/13) Dieter Riedel (18/3), Rainer Sachse (19/12), Gert Heidler (23/8) Trainer: Walter Fritzsch
also: Bernd Jakubowski (Tor, 5 / -); Matthias Müller (21/5), Gerd Weber (19/1), Peter Kotte (13/7), Frank Richter (6/1), Karsten Petersohn (3 / -), Dietmar Vorwerg (3 / -), Peter Schöne (1/-)

Top scorer in 1976/77:
Joachim Streich

Gates

In the 182 point games, 500 goals were scored, an average of 2.75 per game. The highest-scoring game with nine goals took place between Dynamo Dresden and Rot-Weiß Erfurt 7-2 on matchday 20. The biggest win was a 7-0 win by HFC Chemie against Bismut Aue.

Joachim Streich from 1. FC Magdeburg became the top scorer in the league . It was his first of a total of four top scorer crowns, an achievement that was only achieved by Hans-Jürgen Kreische , this time second on the top scorer list with 13 goals.

List of goalscorers

	player	team	Gates
1.	Joachim Streich	1. FC Magdeburg	17th
2.	Hans-Jürgen Kreische	SG Dynamo Dresden	13
3.	Rainer Sachse	SG Dynamo Dresden	12
	Manfred Vogel	Hallescher FC Chemie	12
5.	Rüdiger snuff	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	10
	Jürgen Sparwasser	1. FC Magdeburg	10

spectator

A total of 2,516,500 viewers saw the 182 league games, which is an average of 13,827 viewers per game. This number meant the highest average since 1954/55 and was not reached by the end of the league. Dresden had the highest average attendance (29,385). Behind them were the two newcomers Hansa Rostock (20,538) and Union Berlin (17,923). Vorwärts Frankfurt, on the other hand, only attracted 5,562 spectators on average and, as in previous years, was behind the relegated Stahl Riesa (7,785) at the end of the audience table. The East Berlin city derby between 1. FC Union and BFC experienced the greatest backdrop in front of 45,000 spectators on the first match day.

team	${\displaystyle \varnothing }$ spectator
BSG Wismut Aue	9,731
Berlin FC Dynamo	15,346
1. FC Union Berlin	17,923
SG Dynamo Dresden	29,385
FC Rot Weiß Erfurt	13,000
FC Forward Frankfurt	5,562
Hallescher FC Chemie	13,577
FC Carl Zeiss Jena	10,385
FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	12,769
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	12,346
1. FC Magdeburg	16,154
BSG Stahl Riesa	7,785
FC Hansa Rostock	20,538
BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	9,038

Footballer of the year 1977: H.-J. Dörner

soccer player of the year

After the season, Hans-Jürgen Dörner was named Footballer of the Year 1977 for the first time by SG Dynamo Dresden . As the captain of the Dresden team, Dörner played a key role in their successful seasons and, in the previous year, won the gold medal at the Olympic football tournament as the captain of the GDR's Olympic team . He relegated last year's winner Jürgen Croy to second place.

	player	team
1.	Hans-Jürgen Dörner	SG Dynamo Dresden
2.	Jürgen Croy	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau
3.	Konrad way	FC Carl Zeiss Jena

FDGB Cup

The FDGB-Pokal was won this season by the champions Dynamo Dresden, who achieved a double for the second time since 1971 . In the final, Dresden won against the defending champion 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig, who nevertheless qualified for the international competition by participating in the final.

International competitions

The European Cup season was very different for the individual GDR participants. While Lokomotive Leipzig (in the European Cup Winners' Cup against Heart of Midlothian ) and BFC Dynamo (in the UEFA Cup against Shakhtar Donetsk ) were eliminated in the first round, Dynamo Dresden (in the European Cup against Heart of Midlothian ) and Magdeburg (in the UEFA Cup ) to the quarter-finals. Dresden was eliminated due to the away goals rule against FC Zurich , while Magdeburg lost twice to the eventual cup winners Juventus Turin . The 1976 Intertoto Cup took place again without GDR participation.

See also

• GDR Football League 1976/77

Web links

• Data on the Oberliga on www.rsssf.com
• Data on the league at www.fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ table and results. In: eu-football.info. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .